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John Orozco looks ahead to 2016 after tearing Achilles

NEW YORK — John Orozco smiled often during his TODAY show appearance Wednesday to celebrate the one-year countdown to the Rio 2016 Olympics.

The 2012 Olympic gymnast laughed as he participated in a “Culinary Olympics” with fellow Olympians retired swimmer Janet Evans and soccer player Christie Rampone.

Orozco hardly looked like a man who on June 18 posted on social media, “my family life, my career, and my spirit seem to be falling apart and crumbling into pieces.”

“There is nothing life can throw at me that will keep me down,” Orozco said Wednesday at Rockefeller Plaza.